As the number of living Holocaust survivors dwindles, the Dorot Hemshech (“Continuing Generations”) organization has stepped forward to encourage the next generation to keep telling survivors' stories.
Billy Laniado, who coordinates the group's writing and storytelling seminars, explains that the seminars are not geared at revealing new stories from the Holocaust, but rather, at successfully passing along those stories that are already known. Many children and grandchildren of survivors are familiar with their loved ones' stories, and simply do not know how to bring the stories to a wider audience, she told Arutz-7's Hebrew news service.
Storytelling “is an art of its own,” Laniado says. Dorot Hemshech is holding seminars on the topic for the fourth year now, she says.
Participants learn to tell stories in various ways, such as through conversations with groups of youths or through writing. Many participants are driven by a desire to fight Holocaust denial, Laniado says. “Every story we commemorate is a blow against Holocaust denial,” she explains.
"We know what our parents went through, nobody can tell us about Holocaust denial,” she concludes.